Re: Fedora in need of testers?

From: "Lamont R. Peterson" <lamont gurulabs com>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Fedora in need of testers?

Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:36:19 -0700

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:56pm, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On 2/8/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa gmail com> wrote:
> > How can I help with a lowly 500 MHz machine I have acquired? It wasn't
> > what I was expecting originally, but that's because my original plans
> > fell through.
>
> As long as it has enough RAM (check the release notes) and some free
> disk space, and as long as you have a little patience, it should be
> fine for testing.
>
> I'm coming back to Fedora Core testing after a long break (for various
> reasons)... with a 350MHz machine. ^_^
I think having some slow machines in the mix is good. We don't want to be
building a distribution that suddenly only runs "tolerably" on "the last 20%
of the speed curve" hardware.
Then again, those with "only" slow machines need to be cautious of becoming
"numb" about performance. After a while, you get used to the speed of your
machine (screaming fast, painfully slow or anywhere in between) and it can
become very easy to overlook the changes in performance. I think the best
defense against that is awareness + hard numbers (benchmark).
"time" is your friend :) . It turns fuzzy time into something that we can all
talk about.
So, to those with "slow" boxes; happy testing.
P.S. I don't speak for the Fedora Project :) .
--
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont gurulabs com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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